Gr Noida admin to open talks with villagers(they should consider problems of People who invested money for homes as well..VT)

Gr Noida admin to open talks with villagers



A day after the Allahabad High Court sent a bunch of petitions on the Noida Extension row to a larger bench, the Greater Noida Authority announced it was ready to open talks with residents of Patwari village, where state acquisition of farm land had earlier been quashed by the High Court.

Greater Noida Authority CEO Rama Raman said on Wednesday that a notice has been sent to the pradhan of Patwari, asking him to convene a panchayat and select a committee comprising the villagers.

The Authority has not fixed a date for the meeting. Pradeep Yadav, a Patwari farmer, said the notice had reached the village, and a panchayat would be held soon.

Raman said three issues will be addressed broadly during the talks. They comprise ‘abadi,’ or populated lands; six per cent of the developed property with which farmers would be compensated; and the increased compensation for the acquired land. CEO Raman listed the three issues in that order, and when pointed out that the third pointer on his list is the farmer’s primary demand, he said, “We are ready to talk to them on all issues. It is too premature to discuss the amount of compensation now.”

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Raman said the Authority will be open to regularising the abadi lands, and will discuss the possibility of ending the lease-back system. “For those who will be given their abadi land, we will try to make it easier for them to pay back the compensation they have availed from the Authority, possibly with flexible payments,” he said.

When an acquired piece of abadi land is returned to the farmer, the title deed is not transferred back. The property is only leased to the farmer. The farmers of Noida Extension want to end this practice.

Sources, however, said that the Authority will try to put before the farmers the latest land acquisition policy of the Uttar Pradesh government. At Shahberi, where acquisition has to begin afresh, there is also the possibility of the Authority buying plots from individuals instead of notifying the whole area.

“We had to convert areas notified for Planned Industrial Development to residential plots after the recession threatened it. Not many industries were showing interest in setting shop in the area, which is why we converted it,” Raman said.

However, he hinted later that the recession may not have been the most important reason: “We had planned that Shahberi and the seven-eight adjoining villages should come under an industrial area. However, the Crossings Republik project came up across Shahberi, in Ghaziabad’s Dundehera. As a result, Shahberi became a much sought-after residential area, and land-grabbers began constructing illegal colonies there,” he said.

50 from Mayawati’s village move court

ALLAHABAD: At least 50 residents of UP Chief Minister Mayawati’s ancestral village Badalpur, Greater Noida, have approached the Allahabad High Court alleging that apart from acquiring their land (nearly 230 hectares) they faced discrimination on the issue of compensation.

According to counsel for petitioners, V M Zaidi, the petition is likely to come up for hearing before the same bench that is hearing all the land acquisition related cases of Noida and Greater Noida.

Counsel for Greater Noida Authority Ramendra Pratap Singh, however, said he was not aware of any such petition. The petitioners have alleged that while the Authority paid compensation after acquiring land, it took the money back from a few farmers. They were then allegedly given land in prime locations. The petitioners have questioned why all villagers were not given land.